The Calendar - Celestron NexStar 90 MAK Instruction Manual

Go to the Tools menu. The first item in the Tools
menu is What's Up? Select it.
A list of objects that will be visible from your
location in tonight's sky will be generated. When
you highlight an item and click the adjacent
Information button, various astronomical data
regarding that object will be displayed.
Some of these objects, and the data displayed with
them, may be unfamiliar to you. We'll be
describing most of the information in the What's
Up? command in more detail on page 61.
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The Calendar

Mankind has been using calendars of one kind or
another to mark the passage of time for thousands
of years. The Calendar feature of our program
charts the phases of the Moon, sunrise and sunset;
you can even display and print a calendar for a
single month or the entire year.
If you select the Date & Time tab on the Command
Center window, a small calendar for the current
month will be displayed. Here's a great (if we do
say so ourselves) feature: if you click on any date in
the calendar, the Sky Chart automatically shifts to
show you what the sky will look like on that date,
for the current time. Notice also that the four major
phases of the Moon are displayed in the calendar.
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